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Low ELEVATOR.

No. 390,787. Patented Oct. 9, 1888.

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NITE STATES AENT FFICE.

JACOB LANE AND NELSON MOPHERSON, OF GAINSBOROUGH, ONTARIO, CANADA; SAID LANE ASSIGNOR TO EPHRAM MOPHERSON, OF

SAME PLACE.

LOAD-=ELEVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,787, dated October 9, 1888.

Application filed December 21, 1885. Serial No. 186.318.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JACOB LANE and NEL- SON MOPHERSON, citizens of the Dominion of Canada, residing in the township of GainS- borough. in the county of Lincoln and Province of Ontario, have invented a new and useful Load-Elevator, (for which we have obtained a patent in the Dominion of Canada, No. 22,690, hearing date October 28, 1885,) of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is an improved loadelevator; and it consists in certain improved construetions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improvement as in use, and Fig. 2 is a detail view ofone of the combined drums and ratchet-wheels.

The framing may be an ordinary barn-framing, or may be of any other suitable construc tion. In this framing wejournal the parallel shafts A B, to each of which we attach at one end the load-suspending cords C, which depend from the shafts A B and connect at their lower ends with the parallel bars D, support ing the parallel bars D, which may be adjusted under the wagon-body, as shown. On each of the shafts A B are secured a drum, E, and a ratchet-wheel, F, which are combined and arranged, preferably, at the ends of the shafts, as shown.

Pawls G G are pivoted at one end to the framing and engage with the ratchet-wheels F. These pawls and the ratchet form a detent, as will be understood. The releasingcords 9 connect with the pawls and are directed thence by suitable guides into convenient reach of the operator. A cord, H, connects the drums E E together, so the proper turning of one will effect also the desired turning of the other. The operating-cord It extends from one of the drums E, as shown, and is by preference formed integral with the connecting-cord H, such cord H it being wound on (No model.) Patented in Canada October 28, 1885, No.22,690.

the drum from which parth depends, as will be understood from the drawings.

It will be seen that by properly connecting the suspension-cords with the wagon-body and then drawing on power-cord h the load-may be elevated to any desired point and will be stopped thereat by the detent. On releasing the detent the load may be lowered, as desired.

The particular construction of the combined drum and ratchet-wheel is most clearly shown in Fig. 2. The spoke-bars 1 2 are arranged at right angles to each other and extend out to the periphery of the drum,of which periphery their ends and also the ends of the short radial bars 3 form a part. Between the ends of bars 1, 2, and 3 the peripheral sections 4. are secured. A ring, 5, is secured on the inner side of the drum and extends radially beyond the periphery thereof, forming a guard-flange. On the other end of the drum we secure the ratchet-wheel sections 6, which taper inward toward their inner ends and have their outer ends shaped to provide the ratchet-teeth.

The suspending-cords C connect at their lower ends with the parallel side bars, D, on which the ends of the parallel cross-bars D are rested. These cross bars D extend under and support the wagon-body,as clearly shown in Fig. l.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is- In an apparatus, substantially as described. a combined drum and ratchetwheel, the said ratchet-wheel being formed of inwardly-tapering sections, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

Gainsborough, September 23, 1885.

JACOB LANE. NELSON MUPHERSON.

In presence of- D. E. OAULTON, S. It. BADGLEY. 

